Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 588 Films to Buy & Rent
- Precious (Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire) (2009)
- Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique , Paula Patton…
- Heated ghetto drama puts a hopeful spin on the despair suffered by an illiterate, overweight teenager who prepares to give birth to her second child…
- Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The (2009)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Robin Wright, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin…
- Drama boasting a formidable performance from Robin Wright Penn as the beautiful, middle–aged Pippa Lee, who finds herself living in a…
- Shank (2009)
- Dir. Simon Pearce
Feat. Wayne Virgo, Marc Laurent, Alice Payne…
- Harrowing coming–of–age drama which makes up for a few cliches with a lot of raw power. Set in Bristol, where a closeted gay youth…
- Shrink (2009)
- Dir. Jonas Pate
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Saffron Burrows
- Kevin Spacey’s pot–smoking, chronically depressed psychiatrist is at the centre of this sprawling L.A. story, which attempts to unearth the…
- Spread (2009)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva
- The egos are big and hard in this glib L.A. story about a broke–ass hustler (Kutcher) who exchanges bed and board for sexual favours, in…
- That Evening Sun (2009)
- Dir. Scott Teems
Feat. Hal Holbrook, Mia Wasikowska, Walton Goggins…
- An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
- Uncertainty (2009)
- Dir. David Siegel, Scott McGehee
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Assumpta Serna…
- 'Uncertainty' is both the title and the key to enjoying this convention–defying thriller that interweaves two parallel stories that feature the…
- Unmade Beds (2009)
- Dir. Alexis Dos Santos
Feat. Fernando Tielve, Deborah Francois, Michiel Huisman…
- In parallel stories, a Spanish boy and a French girl try to find meaningful connection while squatting in a London hipster neighbourhood in this…
- Vicious Kind, The (2009)
- Dir. Lee Toland Krieger
Feat. Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, J.K. Simmons…
- Bilious familial drama stylistically indebted to Neil Labute features Adam Scott spitting misogynistic aphorisms at his brother's new girlfriend,…
- Wah Do Dem (What They Do) (2009)
- Dir. Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
Feat. Sean Bones, Carl Bradshaw, Norah Jones
- A young indie musician suffers solo through a disaster–prone Caribbean holiday in this shaggy road movie with a sweetly comic sensibility.…